604 RHYNCHOPHORA. 
hiding the surface-sculpture, and there are some darker scales intermixed with the 
reddish ones. ‘The scattered pallid scales on the prothorax are large, and tend to form 
a cruciform patch on the disc and some irregular markings towards the sides. The 
elytral markings are not unlike those of Cryptorhynchus fictus, Boh. 
EUTINOBOTHRUS. 
Eutinobothrus, Faust, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1896, pp. 54, 84. 
This genus is based upon Cryptorhynchus pilosellus, Boh., and I have not yet seen 
any other insect that can be treated as congeneric. The type is a very small, oblong 
form, with the femora unarmed; the tibie almost straight and rather long; the 
rostrum cylindrical, curved, and received into the U-shaped mesosternum; the eyes 
widely separated, and almost covered by the ocular lobes of the prothorax; the ventral 
segments 2-4 subequal in length ; the metathoracic episterna broad. 
1. Hutinobothrus pilosellus. (Tab. XXIX. figg. 25, 25a.) 
Cryptorhynchus pilosellus, Boh. in Schénh. Gen. Cure. viii. 1, p. 3437, 
Eutinobothrus pilosellus, Faust, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1896, p. 84. | 
Hab. Muxico, Jalapa (Hoge); Guatemata, Zapote (Champion).—CotomBia!; VeENeE- 
ZUELA, Caracas 2, 
Three specimens, agreeing very well with a Colombian example lent me by Dr. Heller. 
The rostrum of the male is rugosely punctate and sharply carinate, that of the female 
being almost smooth from the middle onwards. 
PHALIAS, gen. nov. 
Rostrum very short, narrow, almost straight, the antenne inserted close to the base, with the scape short, 
about as long as the first joint of the funiculus, joints 2-7 of the latter slender, short, the club ovate, 
with transverse sutures ; eyes lateral, pyriform ; prothorax about as long as broad, very deeply bisinuate 
at the base, the hind angles received into the emarginate base of the elytra, the ocular lobes rather 
prominent; scutellum small, oval; elytra oblong, a little wider than the prothorax, with nine rows of 
punctures and a short additional outer row at the base; mesosternum horizontally produced, angularly 
emarginate in front; metasternum rather long, the episterna narrow ; ventral segments 2-4 equal in 
length, the sutures straight; legs short; femora exceedingly stout, compressed, unarmed; tibice very 
broad, compressed, rounded externally, straight within, the claw arising from the outer apical angle ; 
tarsi short, narrow, the third joint neither dilated nor bilobed, but simply excavate at the apex above, the 
claws divergent, simple; body elongate-ovate, narrow, densely squamose. , 
The single species referred to this genus is one of the most remarkable forms of the 
present group known to me. It has the femora and tibie very broad and compressed, 
the tarsi short and narrow, with the third joint not wider than the second, the antenne 
inserted close to the base of the rostram, &c. In the form of the legs Phalias 
somewhat approaches the North-American genera Acamptus and Paracamptus, but 
the insect is not otherwise related to them. 
